May 21 to June 6, 2009
by Judith Thompson
May 21 to June 6, 2009
Performing Arts Lodge Theatre
Directed by David Bloom, Katrina Dunn and Mindy Parfitt
Starring Alexa Devine, Russell Roberts and Laara Sadiq
Set by Yvan Morissette
Costumes by Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh
Lighting by John Webber
Sound by Brian Linds
Three scalding monologues make up Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End: a shockingly funny portrayal of the soldier who took the fall for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; the dying reflections of the weapons inspector who blew the whistle on government justifications for the invasion of Iraq; a tea party with a mother and political leader who suffered unfathomable loss at the hands of Saddam Hussein. Whatever your views on the war, this play will unsettle you with its startling beauty.
“Palace of the End raises the bar . . . searing . . . elegiac, beautifully specific.” – LA Times
"One of Canada's foremost women of letters." – Toronto StarPerformance Times
Tuesday - Saturday 8pm;
Saturday 2pm;
Sunday 4pm
Special Performances
Thur 21 May – Free Preview Performance — tickets at the door, first-come first-served
Fri 22 May – Opening Night
Sat 23 May, 2pm – Two for One: all tickets $13
Sun 24 May, 4pm – Director's Chat - Join Director Katrina Dunn pre-show in the lobby at 3:15pm
Tue 26 May – post-show Talkback
March 27 - April 4, 2009
Having trouble making sense of the chattering voices in the mainstream media?
Let the fine minds of News of the World help you sort out the nuggets of truth from the turds of lies.
Fully wired. Fully interactive. It’s all about you.
Announcing the launch of the News of the World YouTube channel. See each performance (almost) live!
Tell us what news stories are on YOUR mind. The fine minds of News of the World will take your suggestions and turn them into theatrical gold.
Created by David Bloom, Alex Lazaridis Ferguson, Marcus Youssef, Robin Greenwood and Itai Erdal
Performed by David Bloom, Tricia Collins and Alex Lazaridis Ferguson
VIVO Media Arts, 1965 Main Street
March 27 - April 4, 2009
Preview - March 26 @ 8pm
Opening - March 27 @ 8pm
Runs Tuesday through Saturday @ 8pm
Matinees - Sunday, March 29 and Thursday, April 2 @ 2pm
***All tickets are Pay-what-you-can for all performances***
Contact us for more information
by David Bloom
(inspired by The Revenger’s Tragedy by Thomas Middleton)
"Revenge triumphs in a bloody good show" - The Vancouver Sun (read full review here)
How far will you go to obtain justice? Revenge is a darkly funny tale of love and vengeance, set in a world obsessed with transient beauty, wealth and power. David Bloom’s re-imagining of The Revenger’s Tragedy deconstructs and rebuilds, before your very eyes, a classic and classical tale of covetousness, greed and murderous impulses and their horrifying consequences.
When:
Free Preview May 3, running May 4 -12, 2007, 8:00 pm.
Pay-what-you-can matinées Sunday May 6, Saturday May 12 2:00 pm
Where:
Firehall Arts Centre at 280 East Cordova Street
How:
Tickets $25.00/$20.00, available through the Firehall Box Office (604) 689-0926
To buy tickets online 
See Seven pass holders reserve through Tickets Tonight: 604.231.7375.
Director: James Fagan Tait
Costumes: Mara Gottler
Set: Kate King
Lighting: John Webber
With: Cherise Clarke, Alex Diakun, Bill Dow, Michael Eisner, Anna Hagan, Jay Hamburger, Raphael Kepinski, Meghan Kinsley, Josue Laboucane, James Pizzinato, Linda Quibell
November 9, 10, 11, 2006
The Chapel – 304 Dunlevy Avenue
11 intimate performances
1 explosive event
In November 2006, eleven of BC’s best-known theatre companies will produce a giant, multi-faceted theatre performance called HIVE. A funky warehouse. Eleven performance cells clustered around a bar/café. Audience members grab a drink and select from a menu of performances, according to their own tastes and inclinations. They can see all eleven. Or pick and choose. Or hang at the bar and cross-pollinate. At HIVE, everyone’s the Queen Bee.
Tickets on sale at Tickets Tonight
by Colleen Wagner
November 11 – 27 8pm $24/$20
at Performance Works on Granville Island
“The next thing you know I’m being tried for war crimes. Makes me laugh. If war is a crime, why do we keep having them?”- The Monument
An unnamed country. A young soldier convicted of war crimes. A middle-aged woman who is both his saviour and tormentor. Colleen Wagner’s Governor General’s Award winning play is a brutal and timely testament to the passions of ordinary people in not so ordinary circumstances. In unflinching detail, The Monument dissects the roles of victim and perpetrator, leaving us with the question of how, and at what price, do we honour the victims of civil and ethnic strife.
The Monument is directed by David Bloom and stars Stuart Pierre and Linda Quibell. Designed by Barbara Clayden, Noah Drew, Andreas Kahre and Del Surjik. Stage Management by Joanne P.B. Smith with technical direction by Craig Hall. The production team of The Monument is joined by Studio 58 production intern Joel Etkin (assistant stage manager).
The Monument
Performance Works on Granville Island
November 11 – 27, 8pm
$24/$20 includes all service charges
Free Preview November 11
2 for 1 Preview Nov. 12
2 for 1 Tuesday Nov. 16, 23
2 for 1 Matinee Nov. 20, 27
No performances Sunday and Monday
Single tickets & info, call Festival Box Office: 604 257 0366
For group rates contact Vic at Rumble: 604.662.3395
The war over there. The war right here.
Felix Culpa offers you three nights of plays, readings and dialogue on the topic of war and its consequences. This event is presented in the same spirit that created the monumental staged reading of Howard Barker’s The Possibilities three years ago on the dawn of the Iraq invasion. Then, Felix Culpa brought together over 50 of Vancouver best theatrical talents at the VECC as a benefit for the Canadian Red Cross’ relief efforts in Iraq. Today, that conflict has no end in sight. We pose the question – why are we unable to eradicate war?
May 26th, 27th, 28th, 2006 @ 8 pm
Playwrights’ Theatre Centre Studio (map)
Tickets by donation, at the door only
Proceeds to benefit The Canadian Red Cross
Written and performed by David Bloom
The challenge – we give playwright David Bloom precisely 68 hours to write his version of Canada’s war in Afghanistan.
Sunday, May 28th @ 8 pm
A reading, featuring Vancouver most dynamic emerging and experienced talents
After a seven year absence at the Crusades, warriors return to find that the womenfolk have overturned the old system of feudal patriarchy. There follows an appalling conflict that destroys a society. With Rukiya Bernard, Bill Dow, Alex Ferguson, Simon Hayama, Kevin Loring, Linda Quibell, Denis Simpson and Veena Sood.
By Una Memisevic
One Performance Only!
Thursday, November 18 at 6 PM
Performance Works, Granville Island
Tickets $15, at door only, call 604.251.7889 for info
Inspired by events in Sarajevo during the Bosnian conflict, Una Memisevic's RAW is an honest, unsettling and oddly humorous look at life in a city under siege. One woman, alone in her apartment, with a sniper she may or may not know outside, builds herself an impossible form of escape as she reflects on a world gone mad.
Una Memisevic was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. She recently graduated from Studio 58. She has been seen in several productions there, as well as in The Electric Company's The Fall. This season she is an artist-in-residence with Felix Culpa, where she continues work on her one-woman show RAW.
This special event features a one-time only performance of RAW, followed by a presentation by and talkback session with George Chandler of the Canadian Red Cross. George is the Coordinator of the Red Cross's Humanitarian Issues Program and Youth TAP in the Lower Mainland.
Proceeds will benefit Red Cross relief efforts in the Sudan
In Association with Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies
Friday, November 19 at 9:45 PM
Performance Works, Granville Island
Admission $5, at door only, call 604.251.7889 for info
Colleen Wagner won the 1996 Governor General's Award for her third play, The Monument, the story of a woman who exacts an unusual revenge on a soldier guilty of war-time atrocities against women. The author cites her experiences travelling throughout south-east Asia and witnessing civil wars as her original motive for writing The Monument. The play is set in an unnamed country and has obvious universal relevance to the turmoil unfolding in our world, both pre- and post-September 11. Wagner's play gives identity and dignity to the nameless victims of conflicts everywhere and asks us to consider a profound and moving argument for peace and the imperative of forgiveness in the face of unspeakable violence and harm.
Moderator Marina Sonkina was a Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages in the former Soviet Union (Moscow State University), and teaches Russian literature, film and creative writing at SFU and UBC. A former CBC producer and broadcaster, she writes about theatre.
June 16, 2004 is the centenary of Bloomsday. Around the world, lovers of literature will gather to celebrate Irish writer James Joyce's infamous novel Ulysses, which takes place over one day, June 16, 1904. This epic novel has been praised, condemned, loved, reviled, banned and lauded but it has taken its place as one of the best-known books of the 20th century.
One hundred years later, Felix Culpa, Vancouver's premier language-based theatre, and The Granville Book Company, Vancouver's best independent bookstore, are joining forces to present a unique event - a 24 hour marathon reading of Ulysses - with a twist. Reading the entire novel (or as much as can be read in 24 hours) is Jessie Award winning actress Linda Quibell, Artistic Director of Felix Culpa. Nothing like this has ever been attempted before, anywhere. This feat of human endurance will directly benefit the Learning Centre at the Carnegie Community Centre in Vancouver’s downtown Eastside. Pledge a few cents or a few dollars per hour; you can be sure that your donation will go directly to the promotion of adult literacy and educational assistance to those most in need.
The event will start at the Granville Book Company (850 Granville Street) and finish up in the shebeen of the Irish Heather Pub in Gastown (217 Carrall Street) with the reading of the final chapter, the famous Molly Bloom monologue yes I said yes I will Yes. Fine whiskies and other Irish libations will be served, along with the traditional Bloomsday fare of Burgundy and gorgonzola cheese.
As far as we know, an event like this like has never been tried before. Who knows how it will end? You'll have to come down and see for yourself.
What: 24 hour marathon reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
When: midnight of June 15 to midnight of June 16, 2004
Where: The Granville Book Company and The Irish Heather Pub
Who: Presented by the Granville Book Company and Felix Culpa, as a benefit for the Learning Centre at the Carnegie Centre.
Call 604.251.7889 for more info
Download a pledge form here (PDF format) or pledge online at www.sporg.com (SPORG ID: 5892)
